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You Can Now Craft Near Endless Amounts of AI Voices to Annoy Your Friends With Voicemod
Voicemod, the real-time AI voice-changing app, is now letting anybody craft whatever kind of voice they want, though limited by a selection of preset baseline vocals. The Voicemod app, first introduced last year, was a quaint program that let users modulate their vocals with AI based on a swathe of presets, such as “Morgan” to…
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America Got Its First AI Executive Order. Here’s What You Need to Know
The Biden Administration is moving forward with a first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence executive order aimed at creating new “consensus industry standards” for developing safe and trustworthy and setting up new guardrails to prevent potentially disastrous misuse. Today’s executive order marks a key inflection point in AI regulation, as lawmakers in governments around the world grapple with how to…
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New York Bill Would Require a Criminal Background Check to Buy a 3D Printer
New York residents eyeing a new 3D printer may soon have to submit a criminal background check if a newly proposed state bill becomes law. The recently introduced legislation, authored by state senator Jenifer Rajkumar, aims to snub out an increasingly popular loophole where convicted felons who would otherwise be prohibited from legally buying a…
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FBI Ordered to Find Out Which Agency Disobeyed White House in Secret Deal, Finds Out It Was Itself
Earlier this year, the New York Times reported that an unknown federal agency had breached official White House policy and used secretive methods to conduct a business deal with the NSO Group, a blacklisted spyware vendor known for selling powerful surveillance tools. The agency in question not only brazenly disobeyed the government’s official policy, but…